FOI reveals 1,000 military staff have left in Plymouth due to government cuts

MORE than a thousand service personnel in Plymouth have left the military since the Coalition came to office in the face of sweeping cutbacks.

The scale of the exodus revealed in a Freedom of Information request will fuel concerns over the impact the Government’s cost-cutting drive is having on the armed forces, and the Navy in particular, and the city’s economy.

I am a journalist and author. I am a staff writer at the UK edition of WIRED magazine and in 2015 my book, Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. I created FOI Directory in 2012.